20th Mar, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
174
A Border Regiment Green Wool Tailcoat, the gilt brass buttons with King's crown badge, with black lining; an Interwars Part Uniform to the Coldstream Guards, comprising a scarlet R & F tunic with brass buttons, wool lining and label Size 21, Height 5'11", Breast 38", Waist 33", dated 1937, and a pair of trousers with scarlet side piping, with label Size 21, Waist 32", Breech 39½", Leg 33½", and a sash; also, three black and white group photographs of the Coldstream Guards circa 1937, a colour photograph of the Queen and the Queen Mother Together with Officers of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, Wellington Barracks, London May 1985, a vignette print, a QEII Coldstream Guards Warrant Officer's embroidered sleeve insignia, three sets of sergeant's rank chevrons, a teatowel and a commemorative mug.
Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £150
Some moth damage to uniform.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 20th Mar, 2024
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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